Archives for December 2009

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom with a recommendation to pair Champagne with fish vagina:  Order up another Spitzer Media-Makover Special! We have a new sex scandal on our hands—except this one is kinkier… When’s the absolute worst time to forget your hate-sex safe words? When you’re about to die and need to use your…

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The team at Bitter Lawyer was shocked (and impressed) to learn that Tiger Woods was the center of a sex scandal, even though they’re pretty much par for the course in 2009. As media outlets continue to find a sick joy in picking apart every detail, each day brings about a new comely coed (10…

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Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as gangster as Public Enemy rapping about 9-1-1 and not 9/11:  Hit the panic button! We forgot about the pending A.I. invasion. Has anyone yet thought about what the hell is going to happen (legally speaking) when robots take over the planet?… Um, yes, actually. Phew. [San Francisco Chronicle]…

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There’s probably no other lawyer like Marc Randazza. He’s irreverent, outspoken, foul-mouthed, endlessly entertaining and on a hot streak. When he’s not defending the First Amendment rights of porn studios and bloggers, he might be on the beach, cooking up a tasty stingray. In November, Randazza beat back a lawsuit filed by a Miami Law…

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Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that don’t need a study to know that spread legs = sexual attraction:  Our entire parochial upbringing was spent being reminded that Jesus does not judge us and knows what’s in our hearts. Well, what if J.C. was a juror for your criminal trial? It was close to happening…

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I’m a senior in the tail end of the law school application process—and a rather late switch to pre-law. (I’m an applied science major.) I know the tiers [of law school rankings], but I was wondering how much difference there is within Tier 1. More specifically, what’s the difference, if any, between a top-3 school…

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Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as hot as the extra $5K Sullivan is throwing at their 2002 class:  Germany is a lawyer’s best friend. Unlike “at-will” employment in America, the Deutsch don’t allow you to “simply cut employees in order to cut costs.” British firms like Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance have been…

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Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that celebrate a sign of prospective law school-ers abstaining:  Jennifer Lopez, who’s been trying to keep an alleged sex tape of her and her first husband on the J.Down-Lo, was finally granted a protective order. Though the exact details of the order are a little hard to make out…

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Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom as romantic as getting married in the UFC octagon:  “The estimated 15 million American homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages should stiff their lenders and take a hike.” That’s what University of Arizona law school professor Brent T. White suggests doing, and he doesn’t want you feeling guilty…